Which attitude best fits Seneca's Stoic philosophy?

Seneca wrote as a Roman Stoic. In that tradition, a good life does not depend on wealth, rank, or luck, but on virtue, rational self-examination, and distinguishing what is up to us from what is not.

Seneca lived from about 4 BCE to 65 CE and set out Stoic ethics in letters, dialogues, and essays.

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